People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses.… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
